Zaharije Ostojic

Zaharije Ostojic (1907-April 1945) was a commander of the Chetniks during World War II.

Biography
Zaharije Ostojic was born in 1907 in the Principality of Montenegro, and he was a Major in the Yugoslav Royal Air Force before World War II, taking part in the coup that overthrew Prince Paul's pro-Axis Powers government in 1941. The United Kingdom's Special Operations Executive (SOE) gave him support in his guerrilla war against Nazi Germany, and in 1942 he fought against the Ustase forces of the Independent State of Croatia during the war. In Foca in Bosnia, he massacred 2,000 Muslims, and in 1945 he was captured at the Battle of Lijevce Field; he was executed in the Jasenovac concentration camp after the war.